We performed a comparison between Acronis Cyber Protect and Veritas Backup Exec based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Backup and Recovery solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."If you need to recover, it's the best recovery software I've ever used and I've been in this business for over 30 years. Plug a disc in and tell it to recover this machine and it's done. You walk away from it and it's done. Reboot it and it's perfect."
"It is fast and easy for an image-based backup across all platforms."
"The best thing about it is that we can back up pretty much everything we want to. We don't have to have multiple solutions. It can back up any physical or virtual server, including servers in Azure. It can back up SharePoint, OneDrive, and G Suite. Everything we need to back up can be backed up, and that's why we like it."
"I like Acronis Cyber Protect's backup process and its management console is intuitive."
"It is a very fast and reliable backup, which requires less management and restores quickly."
"It has simple buying options and deployments. You can buy on-cloud, on-premises, or hybrid solutions. Acronis Backup is very easy to deploy. It also does not consume much hardware. The administrator's tasks are very simple. It is very user friendly, and it also has good security features with low-level encryption and data encryption."
"It makes a full image of the hard drive. If a hard drive fails, all we do is recover to another hard drive."
"I have everything I need in the backup or in the partition. "
"I have not seen another backup solution as scalable as this one."
"One nice feature with Backup Exec is mainly that disaster can happen to any server and the disk image can be destroyed very easily. It's also easy to fully email the backup image and restore the server."
"The one thing for the last 12 months which has been very good for Veritas was the instance-based license. This means that you're able to license per instance, not only per physical server."
"Setting up Backup Exec is straightforward. It took less than two weeks to get it up and running. You need maybe two people at most if you have a Veritas-certified engineer."
"The implementation is straightforward."
"The interface, dashboard, and pricing are all perfect."
"The solution is very scalable. Whenever we grew, it was just a matter of adding new licenses, so it's easy to grow."
"Synthetic backup is valuable. It gives you the possibility to do a synthesized backup, which means that it combines a full backup and incremental backup data and gives it to you in one stream. So, you don't have to restore the full backup and then later go and restore the incremental backup. You can do that in one go."
"If there was a wizard that would lead you down a road, when creating a backup, that would probably be better than having to go online or call somebody to actually do a backup. It's not intuitive..."
"It supports Microsoft SQL and Microsoft Exchange, but it does not support Oracle databases or Postgres."
"I've had some issues with the understandability of the interface. I think if they had someone with expertise in user interfaces to look at this, they could clean up the user interface."
"This might be a lack of understanding on my part, but it's difficult to purge old backups."
"The support and documentation must be improved."
"One improvement that could be made is adding the option to download files in a PST format when doing a 365 or Google Cloud to cloud backup."
"There are times when the backups are slow. A faster backup would be better."
"Improved support for immutability and Utility AirGAP could be beneficial."
"At the moment, we have a very complex environment. It would take some time to deploy an environment like ours from scratch."
"I have experienced some errors, such as failures, but there have not been very many."
"In terms of improvements, I think the pricing model could be improved. They charge you by port, for every port that you have even if you're not using all of them."
"The integration with SaaS applications like Office 365 needs to be improved."
"There's one common issue with tape backups: the tape might have some space left, but Backup Exec says it's not writable and needs replacement. We've encountered this with multiple clients, so it doesn't seem environment-specific. It's likely related to the software. We usually just format the tape and use it again without much investigation."
"Veritas Backup Exec should improve by having a user portal that customers can use."
"It could provide better ease of management than one of its competitors."
"The user interface needs to be improved."
Acronis Cyber Protect is ranked 10th in Backup and Recovery with 117 reviews while Veritas Backup Exec is ranked 15th in Backup and Recovery with 71 reviews. Acronis Cyber Protect is rated 8.2, while Veritas Backup Exec is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Acronis Cyber Protect writes " Good backup solution but challenges with the stability". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Veritas Backup Exec writes "Highly stable, intuitive design, and integrates well". Acronis Cyber Protect is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365, Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud, Azure Backup and Veritas NetBackup, whereas Veritas Backup Exec is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Veritas NetBackup, Commvault Cloud, Veritas System Recovery and Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain). See our Acronis Cyber Protect vs. Veritas Backup Exec report.
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